Here are five recommended reads for today (8/10/15) In the first primary season GOP debate, issues of climate change were not mentioned once, says Inside Climate News. “Not a single substantive question was asked by Fox News moderators about global warming or energy. Except for...

Here are five recommended reads for today (8/7/15) “Coal-fired power is coming to an end in New Zealand as the country focuses on taking the global pole position in renewables, the energy minister said,” according to UPI. “This week, the Obama administration finally completed its...

Here are five recommended reads for today (8/6/15) “There has been a lot of media discussion lately about the ‘winners and losers’ from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan, which will fight climate change by placing the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from...

Here are five recommended reads for today (7/30/15) “There are nearly 1,600 solar arrays now generating power in Ohio, and the state’s two biggest utilities think that is a problem,” says Cleveland. “The coal industry and its supporters often argue that coal is still a...

Here are five recommended reads for today (7/27/15) “In line with energy policy reforms outlined four months ago by Gov. Rick Snyder, Michigan researchers say the state’s best path to compliance with the federal Clean Power Plan will start with energy efficiency and depend largely...

Here are five recommended reads for today (7/24/15) “Wind and solar power pose unique challenges to electricity grids, and those challenges put economic constraints on the growth of renewables,” says Vox. “In 2014, wind generated just 4 percent of US electricity; solar produced less than...

Here are five recommended reads for today (7/23/15) “The GOP-controlled Senate Finance Committee did right by the clean energy industry yesterday when, as part of a big package of tax break extensions, it cleared the way for the renewal of a key tax credit that...

Here are five recommended reads for today (7/22/15) “The District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma has ruled against the state’s challenge to pending emissions regulations, finding lawsuits must wait until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizes the regulations,” according to Utility DIve. “New...

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We agree with the conclusion reached by PV Magazine, that although growth in renewable power in the United States is increasingly driven by non-RPS factors, "[t]his does not mean that RPS policies are not important."

Here are some key points from a new study by the Brattle Group for NRDC, entitled "Advancing Past 'Baseload' to a Flexible Grid," which argues that far from being a problem, a higher share of clean energy is actually a great opportunity for a wide variety of reasons.

In sum, the future looks extremely bright for clean energy, and for cleantech more broadly. The question isn't whether these sectors will grow rapidly, but simply how rapidly they'll grow. On that, we'd argue that EIA is far too conservative (or pessimistic, if you prefer), while BNEF is quite possibly too conservative as well, although they appear to be much closer to the mark than EIA's typically bearish-on-renewables, bullish-on-fossil-fuels forecasts.

According to a new report by the Energy Storage Association (ESA) and GTM Research, the U.S. energy storage industry is on fire, having just "deployed 71 MW of energy storage in Q1 2017...up 276% from the 18.9 MW deployed in Q1 2016," and with a lot more growth on the way.

See below for video of Chris Brown of Vestas, keynoting the opening session on day two of WINDPOWER 2017, concluding today in Anaheim, CA. According to Brown, who is completing his tenure as Chair of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the next five years will be the "best five years of your life" for the wind power industry.

But wind and other major cleantech sectors rely on distribution-only or distribution-mostly strategies that leave most of the marketing communications (“marcom”) power of these tools on idle. This year, we looked at why that happens. A few external drivers explain a lot.